in a little bar called the Thirsty Turtle II in the summer of 2013. Don't all great stories start something like that? He was playing pool with his friend Jay, a regular, and I was tending bar. He decided to call it a night; after he left I said to my bar back Bob T. "He's kind of cute." Jay butted in, numbers were exchanged, and the rest is history!

For the 4th of July we planned to keep it fairly simple with dinner and fireworks downtown. We had a great dinner at Blossom and then walked to waterfront park to watch the fireworks. The show was awesome, but right before the finale he turned as if he was going to leave and then reached for my arm. I turned around to tell him I wasn't leaving yet and found him down on one knee. It was a perfect moment and one woman came up to us to tell us seeing his proposal was way better than seeing the fireworks!